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Candid Commerce | The Swell Score
Welcome to Candid Commerce, a newsletter where I review customer journey’s of interesting eCommerce brands and brainstorm a (perhaps unconventional) go-to-market strategy for them.
Customer Journey Review:
Signup Forms:
Popups only show once.
No data collected in forms.
Requires SMS.
Product Pages:
Makes people click into a new tab to understand the product's return policy. Put all the information people need to start a purchase right on the product page for a better customer journey.
No graphics that show rather than explain where applicable.
Improvements:
Use a secondary signup form on product pages to increase subscribers & reduce drop-off.
Add data collection to forms to understand top purchase motivations by combining the answers with quantitative post-purchase data.
Should have a comparison for other products directly on product pages.
Use graphics to show key benefits instead of a bunch of text that explains features & benefits.
Collect SMS post-purchase, if at all.
Go-to-Market Strategy:
What are the products, why do they matter, why should people care:
Lab-tested Supplements.
They matter because many brands don’t have very stringent quality standards and end up selling lower quality versions of a compound.
People should care if they want to maximize the effects they expect from supplementation.
Market Dynamics: What is the market for/the main reasons people buy these products?
Health
Physical performance
Consumer Behaviors: How do people typically experience these products for the 1st time?
Social media
Online forums and Blogs
Fitness influencers
Browsing in-store
Chatting with dietitians/trainers/performance consultants
Aligning Market Dynamics & Consumer Behaviors with Market Inroads (AKA, “of the ways people experience new products, which can you list build into?”):
Independent dietitians & athletic trainers that recommend supplements to clients.
Bloggers who write about why not all versions of various supplements are created equal.
Influencers who talk about nutrition & overall health.